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What then shall we say ? even this ; that Shakspeare , no mere child of nature ; no automaton of genius ; no passive vehicle of inspiration possessed by the spirit , not possessing it ; first studied patiently , meditated deeply ...
What then shall we say ? even this ; that Shakspeare , no mere child of nature ; no automaton of genius ; no passive vehicle of inspiration possessed by the spirit , not possessing it ; first studied patiently , meditated deeply ...
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have been governed by it , and from the comparative inferiority of those instances ; still ' Tis said , a child was in her womb , As now to any eye was plain ; She was with child , and she was mad ; Yet often she was sober sad From her ...
have been governed by it , and from the comparative inferiority of those instances ; still ' Tis said , a child was in her womb , As now to any eye was plain ; She was with child , and she was mad ; Yet often she was sober sad From her ...
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It is no less an error in teachers , than a torment to the poor children , to inforce the necessity of reading as they would talk . ... The child is made to repeat the words with his eyes from off the book ...
It is no less an error in teachers , than a torment to the poor children , to inforce the necessity of reading as they would talk . ... The child is made to repeat the words with his eyes from off the book ...
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chains on the child , to the music of which , one of his school fellows who walks before , dolefully chaunts out the child's last speech and confession , birth , parentage , and education . And this soul - benumbing ignominy ...
chains on the child , to the music of which , one of his school fellows who walks before , dolefully chaunts out the child's last speech and confession , birth , parentage , and education . And this soul - benumbing ignominy ...
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... union can be manifested only in a frequency of forms and figures of speech ( originally the offspring of passion , but now the adopted children of power ) greater , than would be desired or ' endured , ) 1 66 1 ...
... union can be manifested only in a frequency of forms and figures of speech ( originally the offspring of passion , but now the adopted children of power ) greater , than would be desired or ' endured , ) 1 66 1 ...
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| Title | Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2 Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Author | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Publisher | R. Fenner, 1817 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 13 Jan 2006 |
| Length | 309 pages |
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